CARPENTER v. CARPENTER

No. 42504.

92 So.2d 393 (1956)

231 La. 638

Mrs. Betty CARPENTER v. Henry CARPENTER

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied January 21, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. W. Williams, Jr., Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.

Horace G. Pepper, Baton Rouge, amicus curiae.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. St. Clair Favrot, Dist. Atty., Ralph L. Roy, Asst. Dist. Atty., Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellee.


HAMITER, Justice.

The defendant, Henry Carpenter, is appealing from a judgment condemning him to pay alimony of $75 per month to his divorced wife, Mrs. Betty Carpenter, for the support of their minor child, Sheryl Lynn Carpenter.

The proceedings were initiated in the State of California and later carried on in East Baton Rouge Parish, all under the authority of California's Code of Civil Procedure Title 10a, Part 3, Sections 1650 to 1690, inclusive, and Louisiana...

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